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Leafy · Sea · Dragon
in the land of compact blue
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Wow, I see now that you never have time to blog when travelling. Gah, I'm going to an event with thousands fo others to learn about music, how isn't that?
Another nerve wreacking event is the vernissage in about 5 weeks. Gah!
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nothing but the buzz computers | |
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I'm sorry I havent been on lj for some week or so. I have had allergy and hrm, I have been playing WoW. I know that isn't a good excuse, but I'm in too deep to lay it off now XD ( Although, I have been working on this )
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Ramblin' (wo)man - Cat power | |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) r3volutionizeme got me onto pin-up hunting. I went to the absolute goldmine for pin-ups: http://www.doctormacro.info/index.html and found... Diane Dors. Diane Dors is just swell, for her I could do a lot.
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 gloomy |
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Love is a losing game - Amy Winehouse | |
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I have to answer this, even if I don't have writer's block. On the exile note, written on a frizzling parchment, it would say "Five steps to the deep south, inwards 45 lightyears, through the raffle about two minutes at half speed. Look up, a purple mist encompass an onyx sphere. Avaid the mist by all means as it would make you one with the sphere (though if that's your thing, go ahead). Let the vessel go at 3/4 speed in the direction north. Close your eyes and count to 478 when you press the engage button. When you have completed that, open your eyes and make full stop. Let the vessel fall 234 feet. Here, spray the area before the vessel with dry plasma. An entrance will appear. It says in a ground breaking voice "For people who was and is exiled from the causal plane and share the five or six senses: sight, hearing, touch, talking, smelling and sensing. May you enter this sanctuary of worlds. May you become a freer spirirt within these halls!"" I brought with me the vessel manual and a interpreting device and of course, The Harry Potter series. And some clothes for bad weather in space. The peace manual must not be forgotten. I do really own a Klingon lexicon but as I have my interpreting device it won't be needed.
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Wedding Bell - Beach House | |
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Buying furniture is pure theft. I spent 1600 Swedish kronas ( 258 USD) to buy a simple storing shelf. And some boxes to store the actual stuff in. You can't see the floor in my room so it's badly needed. Poor wallet, it's getting thinner, I should probably feed it. Anyohow, I found a blog that talked about all those folk artists that I was in love with a while ago. He mentions Alelea Diane and Sibylle Baier. I actually found Beach House and a fabulous cd called Khmer folk and pop music. I commend this blog, really. If you're into indie folk than maybe you should take a peek. http://godlivesonline.blogspot.com/I usually don't have headaches but now I do. It's 27 celsius in here and we can't open any window in our 72 square meters appartment because of the cats. Plus that I take strong medicin for my allergic reactions towards timothy whic makes me really tired. I'm practically sleeping here. *I want to be outside just like the other kids and play in the water*
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Khmer folk & pop music - Unknown | |
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I was walking home from the tube when a 11 year old stopped me. "Do you want to pick ladybugs with me?" "No!" I answered bluntly. "You are so cute, you are really like a ladybug, you are so fine." He said then. Out of the blue. Guess who was almost moved to tears by the sheer sweetness of those words? And guess who drew the conclusion that she wasn't getting out much and should enter the frightening world of dating? And then I thought what a strange pick-up line that would have been if somebody older had said it. Gosh!
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Sunshine of your love - Ella Fitzgerald | |
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Sometimes I think I should write down a list with all the music that I like and sometimes not. It usually ends up with a list with music that I lika more or are listening to this week. The reason for this, now, is that I began listening to a band that listened to several years ago. I almost don't remember when or how I got in contact with this band, Sublime. SO I thought it necessarey to write it down, once and fro all, my own music history. Because at one time I will have forgotten my journey.
( My musical history )My music history
Blue means that I still like them. Purple means they are past.
My first music was Swedish folk music. Often old songs and ballads originating from the 16th-18th century. We travelled round Sweden and learned songs from old men and women. When I began playing the violin and piano I got a lot of classical cds. In 6th grade I felt so shut off from my peers musically so from then on it was all about Aqua and Brittney Spears. I read Harry Potter during this time and that's all I can think about when listening to Spears. Heh.
Aftar that period passed, at last, it was time for puberty and the self-development began. This coincided with me talking to a medium/therapist. Who was I? Apparently I was best mirrored in brit-pop band Suede as that was one of my first bands. On the side I listened to my mother's Leonard Cohen, Lisa Ekdahl, Enya and Beatles. Dad bought me a Billie Holiday 10 cds album. I didn't touch that till much later.
With Suede came Muse. I had discovered Yahoo!Music and listened on the radio to find out new music that I liked. Calixico, Queen, Coldplay, The Clash, France Gall, Ladytron, Chumbawamba, The Vines, Buddy Holly, Natacha Atlas, Ima Robot, Sublime, Men At Work, Placebo, The Bee Gees, The Doors, Moby, Jacques Brel, The Crash, Jim Croce, Eagles, Duran Duran and No Doubt.
During this time I spent a great deal of time with my sister Capri and her family. They introduced me to Tim Buckley, Manu Chao, Chava Alberstein and the Klezmatics, Joan Baez, a rocksteady compilation Moonwalk, Phyllis Dillon, Dinah Washington and Sofie Zelmani. Some of them I couldn't copy until later. Fom Almira I learned about Loreena McKennit. My father noticed my growing interest for music and gave me Simon & Garfunkel, Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich (for himself but I borrowed it), Zarah Leander, Juliette Gréco and Edith Piaf. I also borrowed a Harry Belafonte cd from my dad. From Capri I got Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.
When my 15th birthday neared I had a growing interest for klezmer, jazz and world music. I got a Soul & Klezmer cd, Tom Lehrer, more Ella, another 8 cds collection with Billie Holiday and Andrews Sisters.
At the gymnasium, some people actually like the kind of music that I liked. I felt as if I had to protect my music style. I didn't know much about the music that I listened to. I began researching. I wanted to be the one that introduced the others to good music. It was a very rigid and lifeless and even strict envirnment - one should like a specific style, stick to it, perfect it and preferably it should be un heard of but good. Basic jazz wasn't very un heard of and world music wasn't very popular. But still, I had to be true to myself and follow what I like. I got allergy if I lied... gosh I can't lie about who I am and what I like. I began listening to Maroon 5 actually and at the same time I got The Barry Sisters, Ruth Brown, Wanda Jackson and Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers for my birthday. I don't know where I got my Kate Bush cd from this period. I got Nico, Goran Bregovic's soundtrack to Arizona Dream, the soundtrack to Amelie Poulin and Amparanoia from Capri. Through Arizona Dream I got interested in Gogol Bordello.
In the second year at the gymnasium was more and more influenced by rocksteady, african music, 60's, motown and the swing revivial. I began dancing lindy hop and charleston and that brought a lot of music to my attention. Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, Count Basie, Nina Simon, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Bobby Darin, Indigo Swing, Blossom Dearie, Maxine Sullivan, Asylum Street Spankers, Boswell Sisters, Benny Goodman, Meiko Kaji, Ditty Bops, Andrew Bird('s Bowl of Fire, Zoot Sims, Misora Hibari.
Sigrid introduced me to Mama Cass and mentioned bands such as Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Shangri-Las, Shirelles: this led me to The Whyte Boots, The Cookies, Ann-Margret, Peggy Lee, Dusty Springfield, The Exciters and Betty Everett. In the rocksteady front it was some songs from the Trojan Sister's compilation. Angelique Kidjo and Amadou & Mariam was another two great discoveries as well as Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace and Ma Rainey in the blues department.
Our gang in school was going to France in the Summer and then I looked up all the French bands that I could find. I found Paris Combo, Carla Bruni, Keren Ann, Paolo Conte, Sanseverino, Madeleine Peyroux, Francoise Hardy, Nouvelle Vague, Josephine Baker and Jane Birkin. Through this serach I found other band too, they are not French but were found in relations to the above: Pink Martini, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Pepe & The Bottle Blondes, Lhasa De Sela, Cesaria Evora and Chavela Vargas.
I made my biggest discovery: Nellie McKay, she is my queen and with her I found Fiona Apple and The Dresden Dolls. I was in love with a person playing classical piano so I listened to Rachmaninov. The odd Combustible Edison and Yma Sumac had a niche in my music calender. I didn't know what to do with them until later. In August I found Quarteto Em Cy.
In my last year at Norra Real, the gymnasium, I really was the person introducing my friends to new music. But by this time I wasn't friends with the people that caused that atmosphere in the first place. I guess I am thankfull in reverse that they did that and in turn made me discover so much music. But it was not nice living with all that pressure. This year I flourished and I didn't seek music because I had the pressure on me to do so, no, it was just for the sheer pleasure of the music itself and the thrill of discovering. I found a lot of film music in the beginning of this year; the music to 2046, In The Mood for Love, Nightmare before Chritmas, Kill Bill and Twin Peaks. Jolie Holland found her way into my heart.
For my birthday I got the avant garde/cabaret, Janet Klien, Niki Jaine, The Tiger Lillies, Claire Fader & The Vaudevillains and Jill Tracy. I was into Berthold Brecht and soon to come was german new wave band Slapp Happy (& Henry Cow) and metal band Opeth. The Free Design came to me this November with one song.
I began embracing my folk music side. Neko Case, Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom and Elisabeth Cotten, and later that year Bonnie Dobson, Sibylle Baier, Alela Diane, Linda Perhacs, Marissa Nadler, Mariee Sioux joined the group. Portugeese music also made an appearance: Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and later that year was joined by Mariza and Madredeus. Independant artists was big in my life at this time - Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhardt, The Decemberists and CocoRosie.
That Spring it was Sigrid's birthday and I gave her a dvd full of rocksteady music. The reserach took some weeks but out of it I got some pretty swell discoveries: Trojan Rudeboy albums, Susan Cadogan, Desmond Dekker, Justin Hinds, Hortens Ellis, Andy Horace, Alton Ellis, Joya Landis, Derrick Harriott, Nora Dean, The Melodians, The Paragons and Delroy Wilson. I was interrailling through Europe during the Summer and bought rocksteady cds: The Inspirations, Bruce Ruffin and an album called Reggae Fever.
Some time this year I found Lila Downs and Olivia Ruiz. From a junk room I found Katie Melua. Comedian Harmonists sprouted my liking for barbershop music.
When my 19th birthday neared I picked up Combustible Edison along with some other exotica bands and began listening big time to lounge, easy listening and tiki. The huge Ultra Lounge collection was the black, 25 cd's. Bands and artists that I particularly stuck to was Les Baxter, April Stevens, Nancy Wilson. Julie London, Bas Sheva, Matin Denny, Billy May, Gloria Wood, Terry Snyder, Leroy Holmes and Al Caiola.
For no reason at all I found Zap Mama, Emilie Simon, Camille, Orchestra Baobab, Rokia Traore, Salif Keita, Helen Shapiro, Dory Previn, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Miss Li, Laleh, The Crew Cuts, Beirut, Balkan Beat Box, Cab Calloway, Beady Belle, Chick Webb, Cindy Lauper, Louis Jordan, Woody Herman,Leslie Gore, Nelson Riddle, Boubacar Traore and The Orlons.
Now, I am into funk, soul, acid jazz and harmonising songs. Gnarls Barkley, The Meters, Sly & The Family Stone, US3, Chaka Khan, James Brown, The Explosions and Mary Jane Hooper. I found The Puppini Sisters the other day. Chillout music has always intrigued me so I have taken to listening to some Buddha Bar compilations.
I guess that's it. If you want to say that I am a music fan, you might do so. You might even say something else. But hopefully you share some of my tastes and would like recognize that in a comment.
Give me some suggestions of music! Right now, please.
I don't know if this will be posted twice. But I can't find the post that I posted with my music hitory. SO, what the hell, you'll see this twice then.
Wei, I made it (again).
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Chaka Khan - Super Life | |
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A color palette for my new not-in-a-million-years-finished project. I have made an attempt to name the colours inspiring names both in Swedish and English. I really lika Red Frost as the name of the project. Red Frost makes me think of Mucha's Medea if you add a little orange in it. What do you think of when you hear "red frost"? Answer whatever comes to mind.
( Color Palette )This calls for a huge wohoo! WOHOO!
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 indescribable |
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Hey Eugene - Pink Martini | |
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I looove being creative.... And working in a small group of people creatively is even more precious. Everyone have their role and we back each other up on their respective area. But the fun part is that we are flexible - it would never have become this good without it. We tried to do some of Tamara De Lempicka's pictures, those of her daughter Kizette, the one with Rafaela and and Adam and Eve. We managed quite well. Unfortunately I can't upload any of our pictures, they will just be copied and yeah, it's difficult to sell art if it's spread across the internet. It's hard to make it exclusive. But here are the originals: ( The inspirations )
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 mischievous |
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Santeria - Sublime | |
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I have these secret wishes and traits that I secretly like. ....like being a diva. Though some of my friends are worse but they don't know how divaish they are and it's so much fun to watch them.
At our photo shoot a fortnight ago we got to watch them in action. One of them is a funloving person who is very well-behaved, polite and sweet. And oh, what she surprised us all. She was posing with all her might, being the center of attention in every picture. We didn't want the modern sexy look but she did it every time. It was very difficult to find pictures that were natural. And then she denies it.
You may wonder why we didn't say anything during the shoot and that is another twist in itself. We are 5 people in our art community - one was director and part-time dresser and photographer, one was a model, 2 was part-time models and make-up artists and one was a photographer. The latter really like to take photos, I bet she gets high on it, and she didn't want to be involved in the administrative side at all. We had planned to have one or two pictures with lightly clad people in it. And she whined and pouted that oh, she didn't want to shoot our porn pictures (I assure that we never planned to take porn pictures). Before the shoot she got instructions on which pictures to take. It should be innocent, natural and sweet and no sex implied. But, hear hear, she totally ignored it.... she shot the worst suggestive pictures we got from that weekend. Isn't that weird? First she whines and then she does the complete opposite. Talk about self-perception.
So, it was she that encouraged that other gal's posing mania.
Me, myself, like to be a diva secretly and only for fun. I do have a good heart, so it's quite conflicting to be both. And alackaday, I like something worse, I really like bling. I know it's quite embarrassing but at the same time it's so lovely that I don't care.
It was still and quiet now on the ship: only the helmsman stood at the tiller. The little mermaid laid her white arms on the bulwark and gazed eastward for the red of dawn: the first ray of sun, she knew, would kill her.
~ Hans Andersen
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Paris Combo - High, Low, In | |
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Right, so I'm out on energy and it's only three in the afternoon. Gosh. But, but, but I am so excited. We, meaning Sigrid and myself, are holding our last photo shoot this weekend. Two weeks ago we held the other and we garnered more than 5000 photos. Man, that was crazy. And the post-production is humongous. We have spent at least 12 hours just sifting through them and round up potential pictures. We got them down to 200 pictures yesterday - that was a feat. Now we are gategorising them and marking them in the right order. If you are in Stockholm week 35, 36, 37 and 38 you should definately go and see our exhibition on Lava on the second floor, the made-yourself-room. Our opening is the weekend baah, I don't know.... I have to come back. I'll post the poster when it's ready. And I have to say this - digital system cameras are the best thing ever. I want to hug it.
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Cantaloop - US3 | |
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http://artmagick.com I should check this out.
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Hit and Run Love - Kate & Anna McGarrigle | |
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I just had to do this.I use to go to a sandwich bar underneath Sergel's movie-theatre, in Söderhallarna (The Southern Salle). It's quite off and they are independent. You get a sandwich for 40 Swedish krona (6,75 USD, 4,29 Euro) and you can have 4 different things put in it by your own choosing. The bread, a small baguette, is 25 centimeter long and 12 centimeter in diameter. I always choose the dark bread bacause that is not just air and it's much more satiating. First I choose some risotto mix, then cualiflower fried with cheese, spinach and yoghurt mix and lastlyI will top that with artichokes in dill sauce. It's really yummy. I am so hungry now.
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Monkey Man - Amy Winehouse | |
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Now it's official:
A couple of weeks ago I got an idea. No, that is not completely true - I had several ideas.
I began working on the layout, the coherency but the diversity all the same. Of course, I have considered the administrative side of all this. I am looking for models now and the exemplary model is Mary Pickford. The male models will be inspired by Lorenzaccio by Mucha. The first shoot will be taken in September. It will probably be done in a year. Contrary to the current project it will need a lot of premade properties. Though, there are an abundance of minor details that now needs to be taken care of. I'm sketching now and trying to answer roughly how many pictures and which stories will we follow and the such...
Anyhow, these are the main points.
Commercials inspired by Mucha. A fairy tale inspired by Aubrey Beardsley, John Bauer, East of the Sun and West of the Moon amd Sulamith Wülfing. At last one of the ladies will deviate and wander into the land of industry. Perhaps even some behind the scenes arranged photos.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wring left unredressed on earth.
~Charles Kingsley
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Kites are fun - The Free Design | |
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I was listening to last.fm and suddenly comes this wonderful song, Crazy in Love sung by The Puppini Sisters. Never heard of them before but browsing the goldmine youtube I found that they are extremely talanted. Their harmonies are pretty thight and no sync error that I could hear. Well, I shouldn't compare The Puppini Sisters to barbershop as that requires no comp music and four part harmony but they are sounding pretty good in that respect. If they got an additional part they could compete and get a quite high score. Love'em love'em love'em ( for this being a live performance it's more than brilliant) ( Crazy in Love) ( Blondie cover done really well) ( The Rise and Fall of Rudy Woo) If I was a boy my name would be Eugene. What would your name be, if you were a boy/girl?
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The Puppini Sisters - I Will Survive | |
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Sometimes I think I should write down a list with all the music that I like and sometimes not. It usually ends up with a list with music that I lika more or are listening to this week. The reason for this, now, is that I began listening to a band that listened to several years ago. I almost don't remember when or how I got in contact with this band, Sublime. SO I thought it necessarey to wriote it down, once and fro all, my own music history. Because at one time I will have forgotten my journey. ( My music history )
Wei, I did it. I'm so happy, and now hungry. I hear rumbles.
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Mariza - Malmequer | |
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All girl names. Don't you just love them? Share your favourites with me!
Iolanthe (violet flower) Mai (Chinese:Ocean or elegance. Japanese: dance. Vietnamese: chery blossom; yellow flower) Eifra
Ondra (Strong) Winema (A woman chief) Alexis and Aleka (The defender/protector and helper of mankind) Meissa (Proudly marching) Safia (The confidante, or pure one) Anoush (Sweet) Elmas (diamond) Deidre (Sorrow. The name of a character from Irish legend) Devin (Poet) Maora (The name of a 5th-century saint.) Ebrel (From April, the first month in the Roman calendar, and the beginning of spring. Cornish form of April.) Karel (a free person) Alfre (genius of the people) Aubrey (From the Germanic name Alberic which meant 'elf power', composed of the elements alb 'elf' and ric 'power'. This was the name of the King of the elves in Germanic mythology) Austyn Blythe (Joyous and cheerful.) Dione (A lover of wine. From Dionysus, the mythological God of wine and drama.) Gerarda (A brave spear woman. The feminine form of Gerard. Also see Geraldine.) Leoma (Light, bright). Lodema (a guide or leader). Lorne (Bereft, crowned with laurel.) Merrill (Of the bright sea. Also joyful, happy.) Mildred (Strong yet gentle.) Nellwyn (A bright companion.) Poe (peacock) Esmé (Esteemed or loved.) Evonne(e) (french: Young archer. Greek: The wood of the Yew tree.) Marthe (Variation of Martha, 'A lady'.) Morag (the great one). Eithne (Ardent, fiery. Also see Aine and Ena.) Winola (Charming friend.) Calliope (A beautiful voice. The muse of poetry in Greek mythology.) Clymene (renowned) Euclea (glory). Evadne (fortunate) Ismena (learned) Phaedra (The bright one. The wife of Theseus in Greek mythology.) Neoma (the new moon). Leora (Light) Kekoa (the brave, the courageous) I am taking (hopefully) my driving license tomorrow (or today). I'm all nerves.
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Nellie McKay - Waiter | |
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I resent the fact that dreams stay with you the whole day. Especially after the bad ones. You just can't shake that chilly feeling out of our system.
I dreamed this dream this morning:
I gave birth June the seventh. Capri, my sister, also had a round belly about that time. The son that I had was badly disfigured. He had a very stretched out nose that followed his overly oval face. (Later in the dream his face changes, it's small and ratty, and then later he has a protruding forehead with brown hair on.)
At first it's quite all right. I was shattered from the delivery and I was picking up the pieces. I am afraid that I will forget my baby, and that is exactly what happens. He doesn't cry when he's hungry and he is never sad or angry. Though I find him taking apart his crib bed one day. It's a very small crib bed and I find that he is very big - bigger than the other kids his age. When I talk to him he actually answers back. This is a kind of baby that you can't talk in falsetto to - you talk like an adult.
This is when I have to face that there is something wrong with my son. I have dreaded it but not been able to face it. He has aggressive tendencies and I find that he has no heart - nothing matters to this kid. He's cold blooded. Capri has her baby a few days after mine. A lovely girl. Eva and Vic, two of Capri's friends, come to visit my son. They cut his hair. It grows very fast. I don't know why they want to visit (Eva is a very stern mother and tries to do her best for her child that was neglected at birth, he was born too early. Vic wasn't the responsible parent when their child was born, he hasn't changed much since.).
I don't know who the father to my child is. At one time I watch a program on TV where they discuss the impact the kind of music you listened to during sex had on you baby. I remember I listened to techno and now I know who the father is (I don't in a wakened state but in the dream I do).
I notice how the people around me distance themselves from me and my queer baby. They feel there is just something not as it should with him. Capri believes there was some injury on the sperm or something similar. I don't want be with him and avoids him at all costs. But I can't do that because he doesn't ask for anything. And no kid survives without food.
During this time I become more and more tired. I see a life of struggle ahead and it is very lonely. I also come to the realization that I don't want this baby. I am afraid of it becausue I know that it will surely kill me in the future. At home we conclude that it's likely that he has UV (something that I made up in my dream), it stands for aggressive tendencies and a perpetual sullenness. A strong intellect but faulty and the person is in danger of becoming a psychopath. I know he won't have any second thoughts about killing. I feel that I am at a loss, in a crossroad and very helpless in my situation.
One day I go to a doctor to get a proper diagnosis. He puts my son in a white container. I say to him he is quite aggressive so that he won't be surprised. Oh indeed, he says surprised and closes the door to the container.
This is actually scaring the hell out of me. I am so frightened of having a baby I don't want. I'd feel so ashamed. Love
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Lale - Hame Baham | |
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thoughtful
mellow